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Saw a red kite, hooray. Saw a mink, boo. Saw a heron, hooray. Saw a signal crayfish, boo. Saw some deer, hooray. Fish-wise it was absolutely dire, just one small grayling to hand, 5-10 hooked but came off. River seemed far more devoid of fish than usual. Flow was up and coloured, combine with glaring sunshine and very blustery conditions...not easy. Nice walkabout all in all.

Despite warm and humid conditions at Lyepole there was not much fly life and little evidence of rising fish, at least between 1 and 4pm when I was there. Several plucks on a weighted nymph but nothing to hand for me today.

River at a good height (12") on gauge with very little colour. Fished from 09:30 to 14:00 and there was a constant stream of Mayflys hatching but no fish rising to them. I only saw a couple of rises today but neither was to a mayfly. Fished upstream nymph. Trout were in the 8-10" range, two grayling were 8" and one very strong 12".

4 Trout, 3 Grayling

Quite a windy day. Less surface feeding fish today than on my visit two weeks ago. Some mayfly still about.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling

The river was a little higher and carrying more colour than I was expecting. I'm not sure how much difference this made, but there were only sporadic rises during the day. There were a few mayfly coming off but they didn't seem to be in sufficient numbers to get the fish really interested. I caught nothing all morning. Things picked up a little in the second half of the day and I finished with four out of season grayling and three trout, the best around 12 ounces. Two of the fish were feeding in a back-eddy on the far side of a bend: the fly does not drift naturally for long in those circumstances so it needed some accurate casting which helped me to feel I hadn't had too bad a day after all!

3 Trout, 4 Grayling

Only fished from 10am-1pm as a crisis at home forced us to leave early. The mayfly were starting to hatch as we were leaving!

3 Trout, 2 Grayling

Conditions perfect. Overcast with very little wind and the river slightly coloured. Mayfly hatching all day but surprisingly few fish rising. Those that were visible were willing to take a dry fly. A cracking beat with lots of varied water and a beautiful location.

4 Trout, 2 Grayling

Mayflies about in the afternoon but only a few fish rising, fished nymph below klinkhammer with all fish taking nymph. Caught and lost a few on dry mayfly pattern late afternoon.

15 Trout, 8 Grayling

Steady trickle hatch of mayfly and fished from 12-3.15. Looked like hatch may have increased in intensity later.. Grey Wulff mayfly dun successful and also small hares ear emerger.

3 Trout, 1 Grayling

River still a little high and quite coloured, very warm (25 C) and sunny. Good hatch of Mayfly throughout the day (fished from 8am until 3pm) but very few rising fish. Caught one 3" trout parr on a size 18 pheasant tail nymph, one 9" trout and another powerful 12" trout on a Mayfly imitation. Lots of blue damsels brightening up the margins.

3 Trout